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PHE HRTIONRL BANK OF AUGUSTA
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THE
PLANTERS
LOAN AND
SAVIRGS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Pays Interest jj
on Deposita, j
Accounts
Solicited.
Li. C. HAXXS,
President.
W. O. WA EDI.AW,
Cashier.
THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1901.
VOL. LXVJ. NO:l.
LA Proposa
Tor some time," observed Mr.
Markham, "I have been beset by the
?dea of proposing to you."
He was -standing with his excellently ,
flat back to the mantelpiece, and Miss
<Jreat<wcx -was covering a silk bandan
na handkerchief with An opposition
lectern in colored wools-why. Mr.
.Markham could not make out There
was no om? else in the room, and. as
Was evt?ofot the gentleman was dis- |
jpotwd be confidential.
; ZM*S" Greatorex smileOL,
--.3ftnd why have ycu ?bt?"
*ul\ have at times been half afraid
that you. might accept," replied the
candid young man. "At others," he
added (thoughtfully removing an al*
imost Invisible dust speck from hts
starve), "I have beon much perturbed
fcfy the possibility-that you might re- .
"fuse." .
"It would be .disagreeable t<* toe re
fused,".remarked the ladys impersonal
ly.; .
""That," the gentleman considered,
.'depends, it I was sure I wanted to
marry-jtl(U,,it.wouldc?E^uuqiiestionably
?lisagtvieable to be refirma."
""And you arc sure?"
*'No; very far indeed from being so.
At times 1 think I should much enjoy
the role of Mr.Grentorex, so to speak."
""But not always V"
'. "Oh, dear nol-not nearly always."
Miss Greatorex had a canary, which
at ibis Juncture began to sing with an
ah- of the most uncontrollable uierrb
taent Mr. Markham went io ?. neigh
boring drawer, and produced thence a
cloth, with which he Covered the cage.
"You are not sure whether you are
In love, w.'yii me or no?" remarked
the younjr lad}', as the bird's indignant
silence succeeded to his privions Irrele
vant, rhapsody.
^ilr. Markham came back to the man?
"telpiece and, having ?vadjusted his
back, he said in a lor,- voice? and look
ing down at the very adjacent brown,
bent head
"I admit I am disappointed."
She looked up rather quickly.
. "'Bitterly, 1 had no idea that you
could be stupid-lt is evidently possi
" ?5 f H L
'. From the motion of Miss Greatorex,
her head-as they would say in the old
books-he implied a note of interroga
tion.
. "It is stupid not to have grasped the
question. I have for quite a long time
< iknown that I was in love with you."
"Ever since luncheon?"
"Perhaps not quite so long as that
But certainly ever since, almost ever
since Lady Greatorex left the room.
..tThe younjjjady laughed.
**Wns my mother such an Instance
George Pilot's malign prophet standing
behind her daughter and threatening
what she will be."
"I merely meant that thc presence
of a chaperon is incompatible with
sentiment
"I," observed the young woman, "do
? not mind admitting that I am getting
confused. You now assert that for
more than 20 minutes you have adored
Jg -me'^'CMr. Markham's shoulders ap
. peared to de;-eciate the exaggeration
ot; this 'rhetoric), "and a moment ago
- you seemed much to doubt your love."
lr? .*Kot at all. That is why I lately
called you stupid. I am sure that I
am in love; but I am very uncertain as
to whether I would like to marry the
beloved object."
;;v Miss Greatorex laughed.
*T admit it sounds, perhaps, improp
er. I merely mean that marriage as
'fi the necessary denouement of being
what is called in love seems to me quite
a doubtful expedient. When there is
no question of being in love," he con
tinued, relaxing himself by a short
j .'.^ walk to the other end of the ronni and
lift back, "I think marriage not* a bad ar
j rangement It is then merely a form
? of business partnership, and now that
?.J lt has erased to be insoluble has no
. special terrors. But you and I have
nothing to'gain by that I am exceed
ingly--well off, so are you. I do not
need to marry- for position nor do you.
We neither of us need to demand
blood, like Hamlet's amit. In fine, as
"they say in the 'Arabian Night-:,' you
have nothing ro gain by me, and I
have no mnterial need of anything you
can supply to me. Markham is just as
- flne a place as Greatorex abbey, and
not a blt finer. When I speak of bsing
In love it is purely a personal sensa
tion; I should like it to become chronic. .
I really enjoy being in love. But if
we got married!"
"You cannot anticipate your love
standing that crucial test?"
"I honestly admit that I have my
doubts. We live in a straightforward
age; let me make a clean breast of
them. Do you, for instance, like to
talk at breakfast?"
"Not always."
"I, never. If you were licensed by
the ceremony of marriage to inundate
me with matutinal conversation. I
should be rendered at once miserable.
A feeling of decency would prevent
my showing it; I should suppress it.
That suppression would at once de
stroy all openness between - us."
"You take, I think," interrupted Miss
Greatorex, "a morbid view of the duty
of conjugal confidence. You would
push it too far."
"My views are always high. Per
haps I do; but that is how it strikes me.
Every morning I should join you at the
breakfast table with the unspoken ter
ror that you were' about to converse.
' vI.think lt possible that you also like to
. talk in the train and In cabs?"
* "Of course," remarked the young
lady, wishing to allay the anxiety of
her friend, "you will recollect that the
present .discussion is purely academi
caf I have never definitely asked you
to be my husband."
"No," he admitted very handsomely.
"I remember that I have admired you
for not pushing your advantage. Any
day within the last week yoi might
have suggested It and Heaven alone
knows whether ! should have refused.
?j?fi. It is very Improbable that I should
have baen sufficiently firm."
"You a??ost tempt me to try."
j Mr. ??alkbani ratted Ms+hahd,.
I of Today. 5
"Wait," he cried. "B? iel IVs finis
this most interesting eonversatioi
What ? Would wish to express is thi<
trtfrt marriage when one is really i
love seems to me to vulgarize the slti
ation. It m:>kos, to uso the familia
expression, a busing* of a pleasun
Or, more ?rcfcr?iely, to make Into
vulgar W?i?ess matter what shoul
be Piously guarded from any tain
t>f business suggestion."
"Your objections are, after all, proi
er only to the modern marriage?"
"I was not." he confessed? "thinkin
about the Gardon of Eden. Bdsittes:
was in its infamy then-so was nial
riagts F?r my part-," lie continu?e1
. *I dislike anything as soon a? it bc
comes a duty. ? ?se'd \6 like hunting
since "rtrey made me Master I look foi
ttrtl to the autumn as a person look
forward to Sunday, and yet there wa
a time when he doubtless loved golni
to church, when it was only a per
missable recreation-. Supposing 1
were one af the Ten Commandment
that We should go to a ball every Mon
day and the opera every Wednesday!'
"And you mean that you would die
like the duty of being permanently li
love with me," said the young lady
who perhaps found his remarks be
coming too general, "though as i
' temporary-sentimental excursion yoi
have not hitherto found it disagree
able?"
"What I find fault with, ??." he de
dared, "that unless one were to marrj
you one could not do several thing
one would like. For instance, I woulc
like very much to take you to India;'
"When?" inquired the young lady
with somewhat startling definiteness
"Not," he replied* "till, say, October
India hi the middle of the season you
Would not enjoy a blt But I really
fear (unless we do get married) the
trip is impossible. All the same, 1
should love to explain the Taj to you,
and Shah Alina's Mosque at Ahmeda
bad-oh, and the Golden Gate at San
Francisco; it is tiresome that I cannot
take you there without marrying you."
"You could take mamma as well,
and Aunt Adeliza, perhaps."
"That would be different. A superi
or plan for those to whom it commends
itself, but personally I should not like
it so much."
Miss Greatorex laughed. Mr. Mark
ham left his sequestered seat and took
one beside her cn the sof"
"Were you thinking,"
lady, "that you would lil
baud?"
"I have thought that b
thinking of taking it. No
maxj?ed?' he. continued
terval, "this would be nr
would be expected of n:
a hen to lay eggs, or
Wales to lay foundatior
"And then it would cease to please?"
"It would then become detestable,
and often lately I have pictured my
self as riding home in the deepening
dusk of a winter's afternoon from
hunting either with you by my side
or to lind you waiting for mi> at home.
When I think of it I nearly take a han
som and I come here to lay myself at
your feet."
"Why don't you?"
"For the rensons detailed above. I
picture comfort and inconvenience. It
would entail an entire change of my
plans for the rest of the season."
"But if you were not refused?"
Mr. Markham started.
"Oh, that certainly struck me as an al
ternative, but I didn't find it less alarm
ing. If I were accepted we should prob
ably get married; and how dull for
both of us it would subsequently be!
What I should really like would be for
to come and stay in our present ca
pacity at Markham, say, for a year.
You would walk with me, row with me,
fish with me, hunt with me; I would
read to you my favorite bits of my fav
orite authors, and you should retaliate
with yours. I can imagine nothing so
delightful. I have already had you to
stay at Markham; but then Lady Great
orex and Sir Marmaduke- came, too,
and my sister came down to do ho?U'se.
We were never alone except now and
then for a quarter of an hour of mu
tual endeavoring."
"Thank you." interjected, with some
asperity, the lady.
"What I should like would be to have
you thus for a time all to myself. You
would find me much nicer than you
imapine. I have much more 'to' mo, a3
the Yankees say, than you would
think."
"You are not, in fact, such a fool as
you look."
Mr. Markham took no notice what
ever of this frivolous interruption.
"Well," added the lady, "on one con
dition I will come. Do not look fright
ened; I don't mean to insist on a 'prior
engagement' You nerd not promise to
marry me. But I will come a whole
year to Markham if-if I may bring
Lord Mendip with me."
"Lord Mendip!" Mr. Markham re
leased what he had been holding and
laid it back in the young lady's IM
with something of the air wherewith
one puts down an article that one has
been fingering in a saleroom, when one
discovers it is marked "Sold." He re
sumed his position on the hearthrug,
but without again accommodating his
back to the mantelpiece.
"It Was," he' remarked presently,
"very nice of you to inform mc of your
engagement in that way. You eau do
things, when you try, very gracefully.
A more awkward woman might have
told me flatly half an hour ago/'
"I was going to tell you just now.
But you begged me to wait ns you
wished to finish your delightful con
versation. I concluded that you
thought you were shining. After all
you do L^t affect'to Ignore your repu
tation as conversationalist."
.?"I am sure," he said, after the brief
est pause, "you would be extremely
happy. That Is certainly my
wish-that you may be happy
as you deserve. Lord Mendlp's hap
piness, of course, goes without saying.
It is interesting to think that he was
I my grandfather's fag at Eton.
"He told me that lt was your great*
grandfather."
"Ah! I think he Was mistaken. My
great-irrdhdfathet tiled quite tW'o years
bef?'rfe tord Melidip was horn*, and ho
Wal hot "at Eton. Where there is any
'disparity of years-"
"Between Lord Mendip and myself
there is some disparity."
"Quite so. But lt is on the right side.
I take it Lord Mendip ls not more than
SO?"
"Scarcely so much," declared the
young lady, with admirable temper.
"He is but 74."
"And he is n peer. It ls better than
anything I could have offered you."
"As to that, when your uncle dies
you will b? ?. duke/'
"My ?nele does not contemplate any
public bvent so little as his own de
cease. : And ho ls a year younger than
Lord Mendip. He will doubtless marry
?galh;"
"Yes, I thought of that; I took that
Into my consideration," the young
lady asserted, staring up Into Mr.
Markham's face, with an expression he
rather failed to understand. There was
something unusual also about her
voice.
Thero was a slight sound behind her.
"Here," remarked the young man,
looking over her head to the suddenly
opened door, "comes Lord Mendip him
self to receive ray congratulate is In
person."
Miss Greatorex leaped to her feet.
"Don't for heaven's sake, don't!" she
cried In a smothered voice. "It was a
ile. I did lt to see if I could shake you
at all."
Lord Mendip ambled forward with a
keen old look lu his faded eyes, and a
much "cocked" expression about his
half-de&f ears.
"Congratulations, eil? Whb hm I .to
congrat?late? I think I heard some
thing ?bo?t congratulations in person."
"Yes, Lord Mendip, I want yours."
Mr. Markham sighed heavily. "I hnve
Just proposed to Miss Greatorex. and
she has been good enough to accept
me."
"Lord! how intercstin'," cried the old
gentleman. I ree'lect your father was
my fag at Etcn-I'm talkln,' yer know,
of the year 30. By Jove! you're a
lucky chap, and I do congrat?late you."
Mr. Markham received these felicita
tions with some emotion, and sighed
again, not less heavily.-Waverly
Magazine.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS?
Whales from 300 to 400 years old aro
sometimes met with, The age ls ascer
tained by the size and number of the
, - * tvhifh increases yearly.
Divorces arc rarely ir ever nfuru ui
in China; and as for breaking the
plighter* troth the man biuds himself
by three solemn oaths to commit barl
karl if he proves faithless, while the
girl by the same oath agrees to de
liver herself over to the care of the
headsman. But it is usual for them
to pass over the "Wood Ling" without
catastrophe. A widow in China cannot
remarry without loss of reputation,
and a girl who has lost her Intended
often takes vows of celibacy In his
memory.
Truly there were giants in Colonial
days. One Daniel Leake of Salisbury,
N. H., made during his lifetime and
was paid for a million shingles. Dur
ing the years he was accomplishing
this colossal work he cleared 300 acres
of land, tapped for 20 years at least
000 maple trees, making sometimes
4000 pounds of sugar a year. He could
mow six acres a day, giving niue tons
of hay; his strong, long arms cut a
swath 12 feet wide. In his spare time
be worked as a cooper and he was a
famous drum maker.
It is a peculiar fact that nearly all
monarchs favor some unique piece of
Jewelry. William II wears a small
bracelet hidden by his cuff. The Czar
of Russia has a repeater worth 4000
rubles, which he prizes very highly.
Marie Christine changes her rings sev
eral times a day. which she can easily
do, as she possesses about 275 of them.
The lute King of Italy always wore a
pcapulary chain of platinum. Kins Leo
pold of Belgium is a crank on ancient
time-piooes, of which he possesses a
One collection. One of the most valua
ble specimens is a watch that belonged
to Man? Antoinette. The Sultan dons
a chain shirt of gold and silver, and
his hands are covered with a mass ti
rings of all kinds and sizes.
Vefitcl ChriRtonine in Japan.
Japan has in the course of the last
ten years provided herself with a for
midable and up-to-date navy, many of
the finest of her war vessels having
been built in England. The mode of
christening vessels in this country is
by breaking a bottle of wine over her
bows ns the vessel begins to move.
In Jnpan the ceremony is of a much
more pleasing and romantic character.
Over the ship's bow is a large card
board cage of birds, which as the ship
glides Into the water, ls caused to open.
The birds fly off, singing as they go,
and this, by the little people of
the Flowery Land, is looked on as
being a good omen, and as giving a
welcome to the ship ns she begins her
career.
An Accompli-lml CO\T (iioriater.
Among quaint advertisements this
from an East Anglian paper is special
ly good: .
"Wanted-A steady man to look
after a garden and milk a cow who has
a good voice and is accustomed to
sing in the choir."
We had no idea that the cattle of our
Eastern rounties were so highly civil
ized as that, remarks the Westminster
Gazette. We should like to know
whether the cow is Evangelical or
High Church, and how the other chor
isters take to Its company. In any
case, there ought to be no complaints
about small congregations at a church
with such a novel attraction.
HOW A TORNADO STARTS;
Tlie Observutiou? of au Eyewitness of a
" . Kobraclia. Storm.
One br tee most interesting facts conr
coming tornadoes is the record of how
one began. The account was sent to
the weather bureau by one of its ob
servers. The following ls au abstract:
"By A. H. Gale, Voluntary Observer
at Bassett, Nebraska.
"Dated, July 28, 1889.
"Mr. A. Brown, Ave and one-half
ralles northw?st of Johnston, saw the
tornado form. He was at work lu his
barnyard and noticed it coming across
his field ns a light summer whirlwind,
such tis' ls noticed oh any still, hot
day. Air at the time was calm. Mr.
Brown says he was harnessing a horse,
and as the light whirl passed him it
gently lifted the straw edges of the
roof,bf his ?owshed, but had not
enough strength to lift his hat, and
passed on. At this point it was devoid,
of any color, and was mainly noticed
by the whirl it made among the grass,
straw, and chaff on the ground; he
watched its onward movement indiffer
ently, and soon saw it gather a color
which made it definable. He then paid
closer attention to lt and noticed lt
becoming black angry and gyrating
vigorously, chips, straws, and dirt fell
into lt, and were absorbed by lt and a.
smoky-veil began to envelop tfie whirl
ing column ns it mounted upward.
"At the same time a funnel began to
lower Itself from a turbulent low-hang
ing cloud of ah ?reil of about 40 acres;
the column and funnel Soon cdnnected,
and with this union the 'thing' took on
a terrifying aspect; up to this time ho
had no feeling of apprehension. When
the whirl passed him he said he was
aware of Its passage only by its action
on the ground. No color. A black
cloud above, In commotion, followed
the whirl on the ground, which latter
was eight or ten feet In diameter. This
cloud was alone, separate, and clear
from a higher strata of storm clouds
above. When passing his point, and as
long as within his line of view, he es
timated the speed at ten miles per
hour, line of patli east by south. I will
Bay here that the entire path from
start to end was 18 or 19 miles, and in
that distance it made a southing from
a due east coUrtic of two and three
quarters miles, and ranged from one to
three rods in width. Two and one-half
miles from Mr. Brown's point it;
crossed a large cornfield, and here lt.
received much of its coloring matter, j
"That the affair was at this time Inj
comfortable order was demonstrated i
by the shock lt gave the first house 'ti
struck as it left the cornfield-Mr. John
tit.- 1-Af. <-.. ? ...-J ?J- 4>".v,UTr.
Every fence post standing in the track
formed a' dam . around which was
massed debris of everything imagin
able, the whole daubed with mud; it
was a picture of desolation and ruin
dismal in tho extreme."-Theodore Wal
ters In Ainslee's.
NATURAL COKE OVENS.
Deposits of Fuel All Itcacly for Use in tho
Stove.
Both In America and Europe numer
ous deposits of coko, made in nature's
furnace and of better quality than the
artificial, have been discovered. Such
have boon formed by molten lava burst
ing through coal bods. The process of
conversion into coke under such cir
cumstances is called by scientists "con
tact metamorphosis."
One of the best-known deposits of
this nature ls that at Fungkirehen, In
Hungary, where the coal bod was not
only penetrated, but aLso largely flood
ed over by the lava, which actually
also Insinuated itself into the coal
strata. In some places pieces of coal
are found Intact, imbedded in the lava.
Similarly fragments of lava are met
with imbedded In the coal. As a rule,
however, wherever the lava had come
In contact with the coal the latter was
changed into coke.
Recently in Mexico largo coke de
posits have been discovered which b?nr
a striking resemblance to that de
scribed. The coal fields of Santn Clara
have Buffered extensively from the
breaking through of larva. In thc
clefts are sand and stone imbedded.
The volcanic stone forms a thin cover
ing over tho coko. Here, too, pieces of
lava aro sometimes found in the centre
of a coal mass and vice versa.
The first discovery was qf a compara
tively useless layer of mixed coke and
Iava< but later a good coke bed of from
seven to ton feet thick was found, safe
ly packed in beneath a thin covering of
lava, but not mixed therewith.
It is usually soft coal which has thus
been turned to coke, but occasionally
a bed of anthracite coke of about three
feet thick is met with. Such a deposit
is gencrully betrayed by a glassy lava
covering. Occasionally in the same
bod there are alternate pockets of coal
and COKO, separated only by a clay
layer of a few inches thick.
Natural-coke is of dark gray color,
of fine composition-much closer than
oven cpke. It is no more difficult to
light than is anthracite coal, and there
fore furnishes an excellent fuel, which
when burned up loaves only a very
small amount of white ashes.
Haying nu Enfiler .A?T;iir.
Haying ls now a far different affair
from what it was half a century ago
when nearly nil the work was done by
hand with much bigger crows of men
than aro now found in the field. Two
men will harvest ns large a crop now
as half a dozen could then and do lt
in much less time. The work is less
picturesque than In tho old days, but
it is easier and tho crop ls Recured in
better condition. It used to tnke a
month or moro for tho average fariner,
<> get his liny, but now a period of two
weeks sees thc greater part of the crop
uder cover and in many cases tho
.vner of the small farm linds a week
sufficient for the task.-Waverly Maga
eine.
SPANISH GUNS TRAINED
. Two of the cannon captured by Dc
adorn the east front of. the War, Stat
pointing toward the White House. Or
cast at Manila. October 21), 1780. Tin
monogram of Carlo; IV., end was cai
crown of Spain is cast on each. The pi
Department, are gilt shields, bearing t)
The white wax exported from China
Is made by the curious method of us
ing minute Insects in its production.
These insects are found in brown, pea
shnped excrescences or galls attached
to an evergreen tree called the "insect
tree."' The galls are gathered in May
and carried in headlong Hight io the
market towns by bearers, who travel
at night so that the heat may not force
the insects to emerge during thc jour
bey.
They are then placed on thc "wax
tree," which is a stump varying from
three to twelve feet in height, with
numerous branches rising from the top
similar to the pollard willow.
The wax insects are made into small
i
CHINAMAN FASTENING A PACKET 0
packets of twenty or thirty galls,
which are inclosed in a leaf of the
wood oil tree fastened together with
rice straw. These packets are sus
pended close to tho branches, under
which they hang. On emerging from
the calls the insects creep rapidly up
the branches to which they attach
themselves, and begin forming a coat
ing of wax that in about three
months attains a thickness of almost
a quarter of an inch.
The branches are then cut off, and
after removing as much of the wax
as possible by hand they are put in a
kettle of hot water, when tho remain
ing wax floats on the surface and
the insects finish their term of use
fulness ty geing to the bottom.
Weapon For Officers' USP.
Here we illustrate a combination
sword and pistol recently patented in
England by B. Keyes, of "Monterey,
Mexico. Au officer in battle is always
expected to carry his sword in one
hand, and if his horse is at all frac
tious or hard to guide lie has very lit
tle opportunity to defend himself with
his pistol, and there has been in
stances whau if a revolver was within
easy reach an officer could have saved
his life instead of watching an enemy
aim his gun and fire before the doomed
mau could reach the pistol. The nd
COMBINATION SWOItD AND REVOLVER.
vantage of this combination weapon
will therefore be easily understood, aa
the officer could easily swing the point
of the sword ioward the enemy in fi
shorter time than a gun could be
ON THE WHITE HOUSE,
?wey ..it Manila, May 1 ?S9SV now
e and Navy building, in Washington,
ie of them, called the Belicosa, was
? other, called the Gardu?a, bears the
st at Seville, February 21, 1777. The
.esent mounts, provided by the Navy
ie Stars and Stripes.
raised arid fired; The arrangement of
tlie two weapons is such that the trig
ger can b? easily manipulated while
the hand is closed over the sword grip;
Enllro Fleet Gone.
Liberia has had the misfortune to
lose Its entire fleet in time Of peace.
Tlie gunboat Rocktowri sank in
harbor of Monrovia In five and onoV
half fathoms of water. The second
gunboat, owned by the same Govern
ment, the Goronnamah, capsized in
St. raul's River, where she had been
taken to get cleaned and overhauled.
Those two gunboats constituted the
whole of the naval power of the Re
public of Liberia, and the Liberian
admiral In chief has hoisted his pen
nant in a four-oared rowing boat,
pending the attempt of the President
of the republic to acquire another fleet/
-Chilean Times. .
Mexican Bread Oven.
Tho accompanying photograph shows
the manner in which the Mexicans
I'1 WAX INSECTS TO THE WAX TREE.
used to. build their bread-ovens. Seer
at a distance these peculiar contriv
ances look like something between ar
ast-hlll and a Kaffir hut, and, al
though it took several hours to bj.ke
the bread in them, they seem to have
answered their purpose pretty well
Now, however, the Mexican is gettinj
an appetite for new things, and hi;
OVENS TN" WniCH%MKXrCAN'S BAKE BR EA I
precious oven, one of the most irapor
tant parts of his whole house, Is on?
of thc first things to fall a victim t<
tl.e march of civilization. Stoves an
now tho rage; and even the very poor
est manage somehow to scrape euougl
together to buy one.
Kidd ?nu llnvnnn of DORS.
Havana used to be overrun by own
crlcss dogs almost as badly as Con
stantinople. The mangy curs we.
everywhere about tho streets. Sinct
the American* occupation the work ol
clearing Havana of these nuisances
has l)ecn going on, and now the streets
arc comparatively free. In the las
year nearly (5000 dogs have been cap
turod in the streets and killed by tl?
municipal dog-catchers.
Australia's biggest offertory wa
taken np -at the consecration of th
liishop of Carpentaria in Sydne;
Cathedral, lt amounted to S42.50C
and ls perhaps the largest on record
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